Top 10 Friends Lines We Use All the Time
Could these be any more memorable? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks of quotes from the iconic sitcom we just can’t get out of our heads.
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00:00 "Oh my god."
00:04 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks of quotes from the iconic sitcom "Friends" that we just cannot get out of our heads.
00:12 "Tastes like feet."
00:14 "I like it."
00:18 Number 10. "My eyes."
00:22 No one really wants to see their good friends in an intimate moment.
00:26 Unfortunately for Phoebe, she had no say in the matter.
00:29 In the fifth season, she and Rachel are checking out a new apartment for Ross when Phoebe happens to look across the way to Monica's place.
00:35 "Oh look, there's Monica and Chandler. Hey!"
00:39 "Hey you guys!"
00:40 There, she witnesses Chandler and Monica begin to hook up.
00:44 Poor Phoebe is left traumatized and dramatically screaming while Rachel tries to calm her down.
00:49 "Chandler and Monica!"
00:50 "Oh my god!"
00:51 "Chandler and Monica!"
00:53 "Oh my god!"
00:54 "Oh my eyes! My eyes!"
00:57 It's a pretty well-known exclamation at this point, and something about Lisa Kudrow's cadence just makes it funnier.
01:03 "You knew!"
01:04 "Yes I knew, and Joey knows, but Ross doesn't know, so you had to stop screaming!"
01:08 And to think, we'd never have this line if Monica or Chandler had closed the curtains.
01:14 Number 9. "I don't even have a 'pluh.'"
01:17 The first season of "Friends" had plenty of memorable lines.
01:20 In the fourth episode, the girls gather together for a slumber party.
01:24 During the festivities, Rachel gets a notice from her credit card company, prompting her to get distressed about her finances.
01:30 "Let's see, the FICA guys took all my money!"
01:33 "Everyone I know is either getting married or getting pregnant or getting promoted, and I'm getting coffee!"
01:39 "And it's not even for me!"
01:41 This understandably bums the other girls out.
01:45 But in her typical way, Phoebe is somehow able to make us laugh in the midst of despair.
01:49 "What if it doesn't come together?"
01:51 "Phoebe?"
01:53 "Well, 'cause you just... I don't like this question."
01:57 Agreeing with Monica about how she doesn't have a plan, she cuts the last word short to further illustrate her lackluster situation.
02:05 It's a wonderful way of articulating just how lost she feels.
02:08 "Phoebe?"
02:09 "What?"
02:10 "Do you have a plan?"
02:12 "I don't even have a 'pluh.'"
02:14 Number 8. "I know!"
02:17 "No!"
02:19 "I know!"
02:21 Everyone loves a good catchphrase.
02:24 Several of the friends had memorable ones.
02:26 We love Rachel's hilarious, elongated way of saying "Noooo!"
02:31 "I'm sorry, but she sounded genuinely upset. I mean, listen!"
02:34 "Your messages have been erased."
02:37 "Noooo!"
02:39 But none was quite as simple as Monica's trademark.
02:43 Known for her tendency to be a bit of a know-it-all, it makes sense to be a little more open about it.
02:48 It makes sense that her catchphrase would be these two simple words.
02:51 Whether she's cooing over her dollhouse, freaking out about a haircut, or even getting married, Monica just can't help herself.
02:57 "I'm sorry, which one is Demi Moore?"
02:59 "She's the actress that was in Disclosure, Indecent Proposal, Ghost!"
03:04 "Oh, oh, she's got gorgeous hair."
03:06 "I know!"
03:08 The situations and seasons may change, but she's just gotta let you know that she knows.
03:13 "Oh my God, Monica."
03:16 "I know."
03:18 Number 7. Joey doesn't share food.
03:21 Picture this. You go on a date with someone, and you both order different things.
03:25 Maybe you try a little bit of your partner's meal off their plate.
03:28 That's normal, right? If you're Joey Tribbiani, the answer is no.
03:32 "Joey doesn't share food!"
03:35 In the tenth season of Friends, Phoebe reluctantly sets Joey up on a date with her friend Sarah.
03:41 But he won't call her back because apparently, Sarah committed the cardinal sin of taking some food off of Joey's plate.
03:47 "Yeah, no, Joey doesn't share food."
03:49 "I mean, just, just last week we were having breakfast, and, and he had a couple of grapes on his plate."
03:54 "You wouldn't let her have a grape?"
03:56 "Oh no, not me! Emma!"
03:58 If you haven't inserted your name into the statement while jokingly yelling at someone when they take one of your french fries,
04:03 are you even a real Friends fan?
04:05 "Joey doesn't share food!"
04:10 Number six, gum would be perfection.
04:12 Chandler Bain could perfect a phrase, no matter how awkward that phrase may be.
04:17 Stuck inside an ATM vestibule with model Jill Goodacre in the first season, Chandler puts that skill to the test.
04:23 "He's trapped in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre!"
04:27 "Chandler, listen, listen!"
04:29 "Chandler, listen, listen!"
04:31 "Yeah, like that thought never entered my mind."
04:35 In an attempt to break the tension, Jill asks Chandler if he would like some gum.
04:40 After agonizing over how to speak to the model for what he feels like forever, this is his chance!
04:45 After fumbling his reply by asking a follow-up question, refusing, then reversing course,
04:51 Chandler eventually settles on accepting a piece with a strange turn of phrase.
04:55 "Gum would be perfection? Gum would be perfection."
05:00 "Could've said gum would be nice, could've said I'll have a stick, but no, no, no, no, no."
05:04 "For me, gum is perfection."
05:07 It's such a silly way to answer any question, but over the years, this faux pas has become a favorite among Friends fans.
05:15 "Better?"
05:16 "Yes, thank you, that was, that was..."
05:22 "Perfection?"
05:23 Number 5 - He's her lobster
05:28 If you have even a morsel of Friends knowledge, we bet it has something to do with a certain crustacean.
05:34 "Because she's your lobster."
05:36 "Oh, she's going somewhere."
05:41 "Come on, you guys, it's a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life."
05:47 According to Phoebe, although we're not sure if this is actually true in real marine biology, lobsters mate for life.
05:53 With Ross and Rachel going through their habitual romantic issues, Phoebe insists that things will be okay because they're each other's lobsters, meaning they mate for life.
06:02 "You're my lobster. See, um, lobsters, uh, in the tank when, when they're old, uh, they get with the, they walk around holding the claws."
06:15 The cutest invocation of the phrase comes right after Ross and Rachel watch an old prom video where Ross was prepared to take Rachel to the dance if her date didn't show up.
06:23 Phoebe's glee is unmatched.
06:25 "See, he's her lobster."
06:28 Number 4 - Pivot
06:31 If there's one thing Ross is gonna do, it's yell, and probably pretty loud.
06:36 Whether it's about self-defense or sushi, the man likes to up his decibels.
06:41 "Danger!"
06:42 "Danger!"
06:43 "Uh, huh, unagi."
06:50 But there's one moment that stands far above the rest.
06:54 The image of Rachel, Chandler, and Ross trying to move a couch up a narrow apartment staircase is an iconic one.
07:00 "Here we go. Alright, ready? Turn. Turn. Turn."
07:08 "I don't think we can turn anymore."
07:11 The scene is made hilarious by Ross' continuous yelling of one word.
07:16 He yells "pivot" so much, the word eventually loses all meaning.
07:20 But that doesn't stop us from yelling it whenever we have to do any sort of moving work.
07:24 "Pivot!"
07:25 "Pivot!"
07:28 "Pivot!"
07:30 "Pivot!"
07:33 "Pivot!"
07:36 "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"
07:39 Number three, we were on a break.
07:42 Rachel and Ross end up alright in the end,
07:44 but there's always been one question about their relationship dividing Friends fans.
07:48 "Just because you guys had a fight does not justify her sleeping with someone."
07:52 "Well, if she thought they were on a break."
07:58 And no, we're not talking about whether it's reasonable to expect someone to read an 18-page letter, front and back.
08:05 "It's 5.30 in the morning, and you had rambled on for 18 pages."
08:12 "Front and back!"
08:15 We're talking about the debate that gave Ross perhaps his most famous line in the show.
08:20 Were they on a break?
08:22 The question comes up as a recurring gag, and we know fans could still argue about the answer.
08:27 No matter what you believe, it's way too much fun to yell this one out into the ether, David Schwimmer style.
08:33 "Just to gain a little perspective."
08:36 "We were on a break!"
08:41 "Coffee house?"
08:43 "You bet."
08:44 Number two, I wish I could, but I don't want to.
08:46 As early as the series pilot, Phoebe was giving us one-liners that would last a lifetime.
08:52 "Something with mittens, la la la, something with string."
08:57 "I'm all better now."
09:01 "I helped."
09:03 This quote is the perfect excuse for getting out of something you don't want to do.
09:07 Just tell the truth.
09:08 After his wife leaves him, Ross asks the gang for help moving his furniture.
09:12 "If you don't feel like being alone tonight, Joey and Chandler are coming over to help me put together my new furniture."
09:17 "Yes, and we're very excited about it."
09:19 The guys are reluctantly in, but Phoebe has other plans.
09:23 Feigning regret, she simply states that she's not interested in helping out.
09:27 The scene is proof that sometimes, honesty is the best policy.
09:31 Try this one out next time you simply don't want to.
09:34 "Hey, Phoebe, do you want to help?"
09:35 "Oh, I wish I could, but I don't want to."
09:38 Before we unveil our top pick, here are some honorable mentions.
09:43 "Could I be wearing any more clothes?"
09:45 Joey's Chandler impression never gets old.
09:48 "Look at me, I'm Chandler. Could I be wearing any more clothes?"
09:52 "My sandwich?"
09:55 Note to self, never steal Ross' sandwich.
09:58 "You, you, you threw my sandwich away."
10:03 "My sandwich?"
10:05 "My sandwich?"
10:08 This is all a "moo" point.
10:10 Joey may be wrong about the saying, but a cow's opinion is "moo."
10:14 "It's like a cow's opinion."
10:16 "It just doesn't matter."
10:19 "It's moo."
10:25 Monica schools Chandler on erogenous zones.
10:28 "Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven."
10:35 Did Joey invent the friend zone?
10:42 "You waited too long to make your move and now you're in the friend zone."
10:47 "No, no, no, I'm not in the zone."
10:51 "Oh, Ross, you're mayor of the zone."
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11:09 Number 1. How you doin'?
11:12 Joey Tribbiani is a man of few words.
11:14 Sometimes, just three will suffice.
11:16 "Hey, how you doin'?"
11:18 "Don't!"
11:19 When it comes to catchphrases, it's possible that none has really caught on quite like Joey's favorite pickup line.
11:25 "Oh, what I do is I look a woman up and down and I say, 'Hey, how you doin'?'"
11:33 As far as cheesy remarks go, "How you doin'?" is a simple one.
11:38 But Matt LeBlanc's delivery is just so charming, he doesn't need grand gestures.
11:42 We're not sure how well the line works in the real world, but we're sure many have given it a try.
11:47 "How you doin'?"
11:49 "Very busy."
11:51 "Right, okay."
11:52 If anyone out there has used or been on the receiving end of this iconic catchphrase, we would love to hear about it.
11:59 "If you just tell me what I did wrong, I would love to work on it and come back and try it again for you.
12:04 And also, 'How you doin'?'"
12:06 If we missed any of your favorite friend zingers, let us know in the comments below.
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